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Instructure, the creator of the Canvas learning management system (LMS) for K-12 and higher education, announced at the EDUCAUSE conference in Orlando, FL the return of Canvas Grants, a program that awards $100,000 in grants to projects that spur innovation in learning. Instructure invited innovators in both K-12 and higher ed to submit proposals that further “lossless learning,” this year’s Canvas Grants theme. Lossless learning, a concept Instructure introduced at its

It’s exciting times in Orlando within the world of tech! This year’s inaugural Orlando Tech Week takes place from September 27th – October 3rd and will feature over a dozen events and activities. Orlando Tech Week is a community-driven week of meetups, demos, speakers, parties, and more to showcase Orlando’s burgeoning startup and tech scene. Kicking off the week on Saturday, September 27 is BarCamp Orlando at Church Street is

We have all attended regular conferences with planned out sessions and high priced fees. Let’s throw that out the window for a FREE unconference called BarCamp Orlando. BarCamp Orlando is an annual community-building event which aims to bring people from different backgrounds together for cooperative learning. Technologies such as Ruby, PHP, Java and C could be presented alongside graphic design, music, photography, and other new media. BarCamp Orlando will be

The SXSWedu Conference & Festival marks its fifth anniversary as it opens registration for its 2015 event, to occur March 9-12, 2015 in Austin, Texas. Get tickets for 50% off the door price, for a steal of only $245 until September 12, 2014. This year’s conference program will principally be the result of more than 1,000 session and workshop proposals submitted by the public through PanelPicker, SXSW’s crowd-sourced programming submission

SoftChalk’s Innovators in Online Learning webinar series highlights educators who are using SoftChalk in innovative ways. Both SoftChalk and Quality Matters has partner to offer specialized webinar to target best practices for online and hybrid courses. I’ll be hosting the next webinar on Wednesday, July 23, 2014 from 3:00pm – 4:00pm EST on Course Technology Elements to Ensure Quality. Get register today! https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/286997448 Webinar Description Technology can make or break an online

Many of us have 8am-5pm jobs. But there are always these things called weekends that give us an extra 54 hours of time to explore, relax, learn, and build. What can you do in 54 hours? How about creating a startup business that solves a problem in education. That’s what happened July 11-13, 2014 at Valencia College’s Collaborative Design Center on the West Campus. Fifty designers, developers, entrepreneurs, and educators came